To what extent is BRICS solidly opposed to the West? After all, Lula blocked socialist Venezuela from entering BRICS. India is starting to make deals with the United States.
Politically, socialist China is in the same organization with two fundamentalist countries, the Sunny Islamic fundamentalism of Saudi Arabia and the Hindu fundamentalism of India. Though Mordor is declining and Europe is its vassal, the NATO countries, though weaker technologically and economically, seem more politically and religiously united.
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